Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; Translated from the French, by Adam Neale.

  • Assalini, Paolo.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; Translated from the French, by Adam Neale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    constitution, recovered; but the second, who was sanguine, robust, and of a strong constitution, could not survive it. | _ Being sent for to the tent of General Boyer, and of Citizen Amelin, encamped without the walls of Jaffa, to. avoid all communication with the city, ] saw Citi- zen St. Simon, knight of Malta, and mem- ber of the institute of Egypt, severely at- tacked with the disease: I immediately despaired of his life: he died two days afterwards. I assured, at the same time, Citizen Amelin, that his interpreter would recover, although he had besides the head- ach, pain and swelling of the glands of his groins. Having had an attack of the plague the preceding year, he was very much alarmed at having it again. I caused him to be put into my servant’s room, and I had some excellent warm punch prepared for him: I recommended him to cover himself well to bring on sweat- ing. Two days after, he was able to re- turn, in company with his master, to Cairo. : ‘The keeper of the storehouse at Jaffa,